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Warnick Moffit with woman

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Photograph of Warnick Moffit with an unknown woman in front of corn stalks.

Tags: farm, farming, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, unknown woman, Warnick Moffit

Photo of People With Hay Wagons, Mules and Horses

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Photograph of making hay at the home of Grandma Emma. Carmi, Louie and Ma Emma standing by mules. The family horse "old Maud" hitched to "top buggy". Photo taken 1905 in Cisco, IL. About 3 miles north of Cisco, IL.

Tags: 1905, biography, Carmi, Cisco IL., farming, Grandma Emma, Hay Making, Louie, Mules, Photo File: Biography

Paul L. Kellogg

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Photograph of Paul L. Kellogg on the farm.

Tags: 1913, farm, farming, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Paul L. Kellogg, Roberts Family Collection

Man with a Plow

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Photograph of an unknown man plowing a field on a farm.

Tags: farm, farming, field, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, plowing, Roberts Family Collection, unknown man

Mabel on the Farm

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Photograph of Mabel Grubbs in a farm field.

Tags: farm, farm field, farming, Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection

John Day's Oral History

This is the oral history of John Day. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on November 29, 1977. The interview includes his time in an English orphanage, growing up in Canada, and his work with the Wabash Railroad.

Tags: "The Cannon Ball", 1977, automobile factory, bass drum, Betty Turnell, Bluebird, Canada, Canadian National Railroad, Cannon Ball, cement company, Charlie Cunningham, Decatur IL, Douglas Air Craft, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, farm work, farming, Feltwell England, Foreman, freemason, Grand Truck Railroad, Holmes Foundry, homestead farm, Imperial Oil Refinery, Infants' School, Inglewood Ontario, interview, John Day, London England, Marysville MI, Mason, Montreal Quebec, Music, National Guard, Norfolk County, November 1977, oral history, orphanage, paint shop, painter, painting, passenger trains, personnel, physical abuse, pigiron, Poetry, Port Huron MI, recording, retirement, round house, Sarnia Ontario, Steam Engines, tannery, The Great Lakes Navigation, Toronto Ontario, travelling, Tunbridge Wells England, visit to England, Wabash Railroad, Wills-St. Clair car, World War II

Jacob Hanes

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Photograph of Jacob Hanes (d. 11/13/1923), a prominent harness race horse driver. He was a Civil War veteran, and farmer until 1891. The photo was taken by Wasson Studios, and used in the Decatur Daily Review on September 20, 1914.

Tags: biography, Civil War, Decatur Daily Review, Decatur IL, farmer, farming, harness race horse driver, Jacob Hanes, Photo File: Biography, veteran, Wasson Studio

Jacob Hanes

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Photograph of Jacob Hanes (d. 11/13/1923). Hanes was a prominent harness race horse driver, which he took up very late in life. He was a Civil War veteran, and farmed until 1891. The photo was taken by Wasson Studios, and used in the Decatur Daily…

Tags: 1923, biography, Civil War, Decatur Daily Review, Decatur IL, farmer, farming, harness race horse driver, Jacob Hanes, Photo File: Biography, veteran, Wasson Studios

Jacob Hanes

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Photograph of Jacob Hanes (d. 11/13/1923). He was a prominent harness race horse driver, which he took up very late in life. He was a Civil War veteran, and a farmer until 1891. Used in the Decatur Herald or Daily Review.

Tags: Civil War, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, farmer, farming, harness race horse driver, Jacob Hanes, veteran

Hugh Baker's Oral History

This is the oral history of Hugh Baker. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on June 28, 1985. The interview includes his time working for the Mueller Company, and his father's dairy farm.

Tags: 1985, alcoholism committees, automobiles, Betty Turnell, building homes, changes to milking, Chatanooga TN, childhood, City Milk Inspector, civic boards, company town, Construction, Cows, Dairy Farm, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Decatur Mental Health Center, diptheria, electricity, epidemic, family life, farm, farmhouse, farming, Great Depression, harvest dinners, hired hands, hobbies, Hugh Baker, interview, June 1985, Liberty Bonds, marine engineering, Mary W. French School, mechanical engineering, Milk Delivery, Mueller City, Mueller Company, Mueller family, Mueller IL, Mueller Pottery Plant, naval architecture, oral history, pasteurization, Plant 3, public parks, recording, Recreation, retirement, Roosevelt Junior High School, Salvation Army board, sanitary conditions, South Shores, sterilization, tenant's house, The Mueller Land Improvement Trust, University of Michigan, World War I

Browse Items (15 total)

Warnick Moffit with woman

Photo of People With Hay Wagons, Mules and Horses

Paul L. Kellogg

Man with a Plow

Mabel on the Farm

John Day's Oral History

Jacob Hanes

Jacob Hanes

Jacob Hanes

Hugh Baker's Oral History

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Paul L. Kellogg